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Word: infernos (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Towering Inferno in a critically impartial state of mind. On the one hand, I was driving back from Danvers with some friends after a lobster dinner and felt like seeing a movie, any movie, when the Liberty Tree Mall loomed up out of the North Shore fog. On the other hand, I was sure The Towering Inferno was going to be a disaster film in more ways than one. After all the genre included such winners as Tora! Tora! Tora! (which destroyed what was, when assembled for the film, the world's 14th largest airforce, and nearly drove its producers...

Author: By Paul K. Rowe, | Title: Burn, Baby, Burn | 5/15/1975 | See Source »

...Orient Express and Godfather II, while all the time a real masterpiece was playing in Danvers. And I would have missed it, too, if it hadn't been for the way the Liberty Tree Mall beckoned out of the mist. As it was, I loved The Towering Inferno and didn't have to dig very deep into my satchel of critical responses to discover why. I was on the edge of my seat, breathless with delight. Yet when I walked out of the theater I was somewhat shamefaced about how unreservedly I'd responded to the film--how easily...

Author: By Paul K. Rowe, | Title: Burn, Baby, Burn | 5/15/1975 | See Source »

...fall from grace, claims Eve in the first segment of The Apple Tree. If this were the case, then we should not be surprised if, after the show's run has ended, we learn that Leverett House Arts Society has sunk to the lower circles of the inferno...

Author: By Setn Kapten, | Title: Rotten Core | 5/2/1975 | See Source »

...dusk, the poor come home to another meal of beans and rice; then, they relax in the doorways and chat with their neighbors along the streets of dust. An inferno of small children runs everywhere. The literate adults--estimated at between 50 and 60 per cent of the population--cannot read at night because there is no electricity. They cannot bathe; there is neither running water not toilets. So they perhaps light a candle to prolong the day, and the conversations, before going...

Author: By Daniel Swanson, | Title: Dispatch from Nicaragua | 4/16/1975 | See Source »

Cassavetes did not skip hot off the pop "victimization" bandwagon, as Kael claims. He's not a John Guillerman or a Mark Robson--the directors of The Towering Inferno and Earthquake, respectively--who each latched on to the season's big destruction bust, star-studding their creations for box office insurance. He just doesn't see films that...

Author: By Irene Lacher, | Title: The Obsessed | 3/6/1975 | See Source »

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